Our client, Shropshire Council, is looking for a Supervising Social Worker to join their team

Brief Duties / Key Responsibilities

1. Supporting and Supervising Kinship Foster Carers

• Provide regular supervision, guidance, and emotional support to foster carers.
• Help carers offer safe, stable, and therapeutic care to children, with a trauma informed approach
• Empower carers to meet the needs of the children placed with them, promoting positive development and stability.
• Ensuring carers are supported to address any barriers to training and development in their fostering role

Ensuring High-Quality Placements & Safe Care

The Shropshire fostering statement-of-purpose April 2025 outlines the broader aims of the service, which shape the SSW role:

• Promote safe, secure, and nurturing placements where children's needs, identity, and wellbeing are prioritised.
• Ensure that children are listened to, their wishes/feelings are considered, and that they are supported to thrive in education, health, and emotional development.
• Contribute to Shropshire's ambition to deliver high quality, aspirational foster care.

3. Monitoring, Visiting & Oversight

Ensuring regular and frequent visits from their social workers, this includes:

• Visiting carers regularly.
• Providing support to ensure carers can grow and develop in their role and children receive safe care arrangements
• Monitoring the home environment and child's progress.
• Ensuring fostering households remain compliant with regulations and standards.

Working Within Regulatory and Professional Frameworks

• Clear understanding of legislation and good practice guidance
• Knowledge of Fostering Regulations, National Minimum Standards (NMS), and statutory duties.
• Ability to ensure compliance, quality assurance, and safeguarding across childrens care arrangements.

6. Multi agency Collaboration & Case Coordination

• Ensuring stability of fostering arrangement through the right support at the right time
• Liaising with adoption teams, Independent Fostering Agencies (IFAs), education, CAMHS, and other partners when overseeing complex care arrangements.
• Helping manage capacity pressures and supporting transitions across teams.

7. Contributing to Service Development & Innovation

• Ensuring work completed meets regulatory requirements and good practice standards
• Supporting initiatives including engagement with events and contributing to requests from Marketing Manager
• Contributing fostering service improvements

8. Professional Qualities Expected

• Strong teamwork, communication, and reflective practice.
• Ability to work independently.
• Commitment to trauma informed, child centred, therapeutic practice.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

*Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.